Brilliant images, economical, compact Sigma DPxm cameras

Hi Arg, thanks for your kind reply!

I've had this DP1m for two years now, and had added a second one for stereo shooting a year ago.  When I do shoot them in stereo, I've been using the two finger sync. method, which really only works on relatively static scenes, best with long exposures.

Just a few months ago I got my first DP2m, and that is going to be my carry around shooter, whilst I tinker with the DP1m cameras to get the shutters electrically synched.  (see my other recent post in the Sigma section).

I do love these cameras for their imaging performance, and can put up with some of their deficits... seeing as how I'm moving up from a Sputnik;-)   (Still shooting the Sputnik, actually).

You are correct they are specialized.  I guess I wanted to mention that it was a prime, non-removable lens, simply because that is important information.  You're right that it isn't really a defect (in fact the non-removable prime gives the cameras some advantages - it allows the sensor and lens to be perfectly matched, it keeps out the dust, and it keeps the price lower), but the review would be incomplete without pointing it out.  Most people would say a fixed prime is a minus point, as everyone loves their zooms.

In some way, of course probably all the minus points in some way contribute to the positives of this camera.  For me one of the biggest positives is cost, then size and weight, then the awesome image quality.  I also shoot with Canon 5D mk-II that I got last winter, and you have to look really, really closely to find places where the Canon outperforms the Sigma.  And the Canon cost me five times as much and weighs three times as much and is twice the size.  But::: the Canon has a remote release!!  (that is literally the only reason I got a pair of them recently).   Well, to be fair, the Canon raw files are a lot easier to deal with....  but now we're rehashing the knowns.

cheers,

Boris